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DonaldFisk
on Jan 13, 2018
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Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only ...
Neither Cantonese nor Mandarin has voiced stops. In Yale and Pinyin, t is aspirated as in English "tea", d is unaspirated as in the t in English "Steve". English does have the sound, but only as an allophone of t when it's preceded by s.
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